• Question: what is the universe made of?

    Asked by julia to Tatiana, Priya, Natt, Dwaine, Andy on 22 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Andrew Scott

      Andrew Scott answered on 22 Jun 2015:


      It’s mostly made of a vacuum, which is empty space. Some scientists think that it also contains a lot of dark matter. No one really knows what the dark matter is, but some of the theories about how the universe work rely on the assumption that this dark matter exists.

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